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PIC
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
PIC
Alumni
Dissertations and Placement
Kaya Akyildiz: Spinozism,
Marxism, Deleuze & Guattari, Operaismo, Walter Benjamin, Carl
Schmitt.
Mazi Allen: Postwar
Africana Philosophy (esp. Frantz Fanon), the problematic of Space
(e.g., Henri Lefebvre), questions of subjectivity and resistance, and
finally earlier versions of analytical philosophy (esp. Logical
Positivism and Ordinary Language). Completing a
dissertation entitled "Notions of Resistance: Frantz Fanon and the
Decolonization of Psychiatry." The topic of this study is on
the relationship between Frantz Fanon's psychiatric practice and
political thought.
Matt Applegate: Nancy,
Derrida, Blanchot, Heidegger, Marx, Graeber, Virno, Levinas. Interests include
Hospitality, Community, Production, Language, Being,
Technology/Technics, Dwelling Portably.
Dwayne Baker:
Nathan Batalion:
Evironmental history
and philosophy
Thais Brodeur: Research interests include feminist theory, reproduction, mimesis, communication technologies and digital media, film theory, and transductive poetics. Other interests include dystopic landscapes, collectivity, social justice, and d.i.y. culture.
Juan Bautista:
Noelle
Chaddock Paley: Areas of
Study and Activism: Politics of People of Mixed Race,
Narratives of People of Mixed Race, Critical Race Theory, Politics of
Race in the Americas, Politics of Women of Color, Narratives of the
Oppressed expressed through performance and visual art, Decolonial
Thinking, Prison Abolition, Broome County Jail Project, and Rethinking
the Prison Industrial Complex and Racialized Institutions in the United
States. Extracurricular interests: Trained vocalist,
conductor, stage production and direction, performance art, dance,
piano, voice coach and founder of Harmony Voice Studio.
Vik
Chaubey:
Power-knowledge studies, black
nationalism, Indian culture and racism, grass roots activism and
community organizing, processes of student building and community
building, and globalizations.
Ozgur Cicek:
Josh Franco:
Decolonial Feminism. Bike. Chican@ ways of being.
Performance. Fashion. Anarchy. Polyvocality. Palimpsestic Vision.
Shimmering Beings. Old cookbooks (Cooking from). US Southwest/Aztlan.
La Frontera. Children's fiction. Frisbee. Racquetball. US Women and
Folks of Color Politics. AnzalduaAlexanderBenjaminBatailleCisnerosDahlDeleuzeGlissantGomez-PenaGraeberLugonesMoragaPerezSandoval
Lars
Robin Haug:
Rhetorics of technology and ecology.
Anachronicity - grammachines - general and special theory of
iterability - teorhetics - prosthesia - inversalization - allocracy -
irradicalism.
Fumiwo
Iwamoto:
Ethics of technology/science,
environmental issues, post-war Japan, Michel Foucault, Critical theory,
practical/indigenous knowledge, contemporary art.
Manuel
Chávez
Jiménez:
Teaching and research interests include
Latin American Philosophy, postcolonial philosophy, Multiculturalism,
philosophies of praxis, and U.S. Latina/o Theory. As a Ph.D. candidate,
he is completing his dissertation which examines the question of praxis
from the location of Chicana/o Theory.
Brad
Kaye: Social/Political
Philosophy, Post-Marxism, Postmodern Thought, Psychoanalysis,
Anti-Psychiatry, American/British Cultural Studies, Pragmatism.
www.radicalontology.blogspot.com
Nikolay
Karkov:
Areas of specialization: theories of
affect and the body; French poststructuralism; marxist theories;
psychoanalysis areas of interest: space and architectural theory; new
social movements; therapeutical practices. Extracurricular interests:
yoga, latin music and dance, guitar playing, soccer.
Jesse
Katen:
Dance theory and pedagogy, modes of
cultural production, Foucault, Braudel, Marx and Marxist-feminist
theories. Founder and Teacher, The Jesse Katen School of Dance,
Deposit, NY.
Rachel
Kaufman:
Rachel Kaufman holds a B.A. in Literature from University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include literature and film
studies, gender, feminist, and queer studies, continental philosophy,
critical theory, jurisprudence, post- and de-colonial theories, and
anti-capitalist thought and action. Rachel is currently researching
conceptualizations of self and selfhood, with a focus on their multiple
relations to capitalist paradigms of private property, law, human and
women's rights movements, and narrative.
M. Akif Kayapinar
:
Comparative political theory, historical sociology of international relations, Turkish politics. Working on a dissertation entitled “Ibn Khaldun’s Asabiya Theory.” The study examines the Asabiya Theory in comparison with the Social Contract Theory, with special respect to paradigmatic presuppositions.
Stacie
Kotschwar:
Feminist theory, film studies and popular culture with a focus on body
image, consumer culture and performances of gender and sexuality.
In particular, the social psychology of clothing, perceptions of ideal
beauty in media, and potential harmful effects of body modifications
and consumer practices to conform to societal standards and
ideologies. Research interests include looking at digital
representations of the self on MySpace and Facebook. Other
interests include environmentalism, the organic lifestyle movement, and
vegetarianism.
Jen-Feng Kuo:
Chinese American
studies with concentrations on gender, popular culture, and media
representations; social studies on nation and nationalism, Chinese
nationalist discourses in particular; postcolonial studies; coloniality
of power and modern/colonial gender system.
http://artcalight.blogspot.com/
http://artcalight.aminus3.com/
Hilary
Malatino:
Queer Feminist Theory, Decolonial Thought, Science Studies, Medical Ethics, Radical Continental Philosophy.
Xhercis
Mendez:
Rafael Mota: Black Marxism, the Black Radical
Tradition and History.
Azuka
Nzegwu: Open Source and Knowledge Production with New
Media Technologies (Electronic Publishing, Digital Library,
Multimedia,
Content Management).
Alan
Orlic:
Lori
Anne Parker:
Feminist theory, feminist literary
criticism, women's writing and art.
Editor -Sophie's Wind http://www.sophieswind.com/
Thomas
Pieragastini:
Pedro
Javier Di Pietro:
Pedro Javier di Pietro was born in
northern Argentina in the mid 70's. He received his B.A. in Social
Communication from the National University of Jujuy (UNJu) and later
became an Assistant Professor there, teaching courses on issues related
to "Sociology of Communication". He received a Graduate Degree in
"Gender, Society and Politics" from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales / Latin American Graduate School for the Social
Sciences) where he currently coordinates Online Discussion Groups for
their Master's Degree Program. He is a Junior Researcher for the
National Council of Scientific and Technological Research in Argentina
(CONICET). He is now working towards his Doctorate Degree within the
Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Program at SUNY-Binghamton,
after receiving his Master's Degree from the same program. His research
focuses on the production of male-homoerotic spaces in Latino America
by looking at colonial, modern and current spatial traces. He is also
involved with two Dean's Workshops: "Rethinking US Latino Studies" and
"The Project of Queer Studies". Other topics of his interest are:
Colonial/Modern Gender system, Latin American Philosophy,
Intersectionality, Praxical Theorizing, Language and Domination. His
Doctoral Committee includes: Prof. María Lugones, Prof. Joshua Price
and Prof. Ernesto Martínez. He is part of the male-Allies Group to the
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence local chapter. He has also been
actively involved in PICSA, the Student Alliance of the Program where
he is currently serving as the Formal Student Representative to the
PIC's Executive Committee.
Rudiah
Primariantari:
Politics of language
Bican
Polat:
Thinking, creativity, autonomy, affects
and cognition, neuroscience, mass culture, the unconscious,
multilateral communication, anthropology of consciousness, zen,
mindfullness, Artaud.
Mason
Richey:
Aesthetics, contemporary Continental
philosophy, contemporary ethical theory.
Wesley
R. Saavedra: Ecological Dimensions
of Race and Space, Afro-Diasporic Thought, esp. Baldwin and Ellison,
Afro-Futurism/Science Fiction, Surrealism, Disciplines, Arts, and
Aretes of the Body, Non-Western Cosmologies, Aesthetics, and
Metaphysics, History of Arts and Movements.
Dawn
A. Saliba: Shakespeare
and the transcendent, music-theatre, the intersection between the
politic and the performative, myth and drama, the theatre of ancient
Greece, poetry and sound, folklore of the supernatural,
aesthetics of creativity, and writing (poetry, plays, and performance).
Elizabeth
Sierra-Zarella: Social justice and resistance through the
fine arts, critical media studies, autoethnography,
creative psychotherapies, humanistic counseling, psychoanalysis,
working class and poverty studies, liberation
pedagogy and psychology, Chicana/Mestiza identity development, social
constructions of madness and normalcy, vitiliginous
identity/involuntary whiteness. National Certified Counselor (NCC), New
York State Certified School Counselor
Gabriel
M. Soldatenko:
Everyday life, aesthetics, race and
resistance/revolution, Marx and Marxist theory
James
K Stanescu:
Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanist thought. Bio-ethics. Continental Philosophy (specializing in contemporary French and Italian thought). Rhetoric. Decolonial Philosophy. Feminist and Queer Theory. Philosophy of Rights.
Ovidiu
Tichindeleanu: technology
and the episteme of 1900; connections between
popular culture practices and the history of thought; aural and visual
histories of concepts; Marxist and Postmarxist
thought.
Caroline
Mercy Tushabe:
Colonialism, Race and Ethnicity, African
Traditions (East and Central Africa), Gender, Sexualities, Third World
Women and Politics.
Gabriela
A.Veronelli:
Dissertation tittle: "The Coloniality of
Language". Veronelli's research focuses on how colonial conditions of
the social have continued to inform linguistic usages, practices, and
sensibilities until the present. A topic that engages areas such as
Philosophy of Language, Dialogism, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies,
Race Studies, Latin American Philosophy, Ethnic Studies, Hermeneutical
Plurality, and Translation Theories. She is an affiliated member to
CPIC, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Philosophy,
Interpretation, and Culture, and active member of two of its research
working groups, on Decolonial Thinking and Politics of Women of Color.
http://www.gruposoycuyano.com.ar/
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